![]() We are thrown straight into the action with the death of Nell Abbott, she’s found in the aptly named Drowning Pool, in the town of Beckford. To say I was gripped is an understatement… I mean I was GRIPPED! Like ignore the baby gripped (not really ’cause a baby is hard to ignore but you get the picture!) ![]() I was dubious as to whether ‘Into The Water’ would be able to live up to it predecessor… I needn’t have worried, it does! I eared on the side of caution when I started reading ‘Into The Water’, after the juggernaut that was ‘The Girl On The Train’, Paula Hawkins faced what I’m sure must have been the ginormous task of bringing us a second novel. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother’s sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she’d never return. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. ![]() ![]() ![]() Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. ![]()
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